Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In expanding their empire , the British had habitually sought out local agents through whom to impose their authority , and though these arrangements often broke down after the initial period of contact , sometimes they did not . |
| 2 | This is beautiful this song , it 's all about everyone loving each other and |
| 3 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 4 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 5 | I do n't know what you think about everyone followed by their . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's about everyone having their own Everest to climb . |
| 7 | For nothing done by Hitler in the external sphere during Eden 's time at the Foreign Office aroused any public reaction remotely comparable to that which engulfed Hoare over Abyssinia . |
| 8 | ‘ And I think , after all the hours I have put in for nothing teaching you to ride , that you owe it to me to do your level best to win this competition . |
| 9 | Meanwhile as hospitals wait for the first evacuees … surgeons say they 'll work for nothing to save the sight of a ten year old bosnian boyu . |
| 10 | Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made . |
| 11 | But not for nothing had Max Klein spent the best years of his youth and early manhood at country fairs and markets learning to give as good as he got . |
| 12 | Not for nothing had this little procession presented the air of a party setting out to receive guests . |
| 13 | It was a challenge ; not for nothing had Mrs Lorimer been a formidable ARP warden in the war , and later a JP . |
| 14 | What could be more stable than for nothing to change ? |
| 15 | Not for nothing did Sue Ellen 's hair flop when she became an alcoholic . |
| 16 | Not for nothing did smiling Irish eyes make the fortunes of the bohemian hacks who were just about to create the modern popular music business in the cities of the United States . |
| 17 | They have to work for nothing to get the job done . |
| 18 | I wanted my old friend to be there ; I prayed for nothing to have changed . |
| 19 | There is undeniably something ‘ over-thetop ’ about Rachmaninov 's piano music , a larger-than-life quality that requires larger-than-life treatment , and that extra dash of daring in Wild 's playing ( not for nothing do his fans call him ‘ Wild Earl ’ ) can be relied upon to produce something more than unusually exciting . |
| 20 | Not for nothing do rivals sourly suggest that MS-DOS stands for Microsoft Seeks Domination Over Society . |
| 21 | Not for nothing have I a brother-in-law who cooks professionally . |
| 22 | Not for nothing have the return invitations dwindled a bit over the years . |
| 23 | Not for nothing has the shift remained a timeless classic . |
| 24 | It was also the home of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club whose motto , ‘ The right crowd and no crowding ’ , neatly summed up its attitude — not for nothing has it been called the Ascot of the motor racing world . |
| 25 | Not for nothing has Nikolaus Pevsner 's The Englishness of English Art just been translated into German . |
| 26 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 27 | It 'll make the difference between me going back to work and not being able to go back to work . |
| 28 | One thing about them surprised him . |
| 29 | Without even knowing it , we may make assumptions about them based on the fact that they 're called Charles rather than Kevin . |
| 30 | Philip had forgotten temporarily about them moving from Little Knoll , what with getting Caspar out of the tractor-shed and thinking of Lee making his way up to Jubilee Wood . |